Anna-Lena Oldehus
Lecturer
Anna-Lena Oldehus
Lecturer

Focus Points in Research and Teaching

Anna-Lena Oldehus is research and teaching assistant in American Studies. In her research she focuses on dimensions and modes of affective knowledges, bodies, sexualities and story-telling. In the past she has been teaching classes on American literature from the 1910s until today, on queer theory, queer of color critique and affect theory.  

Resume

  • Professional Career

    April 2018
    ERASMUS Staff Mobility as a visiting lecturer at the University of Warsaw and the University of Wroclaw. 

    Since March 2016
    PhD Candidate in American Studies | Prof. Ruth Mayer
    Working Title: “Feeling Matters - Queering Affect in Contemporary Transnational Literature.“ 

    Assistant in the American Studies Division of the English Department and Coordinator of the interdisciplinary study program "Gender Studies" at Leibniz University

    April – Oktober 2015
    Traineeship at the "Literarischen Salon" at Leibniz University Hannover

    April 2014 – Februar 2016
    Teaching Assistant in the American Studies Division at Leibniz University

    Oktober 2012 – März 2016
    Student Assistant in the American Studies Division at Leibniz University

    Januar 2012 – August 2012
    Teaching Assistant at the English and Modern Language Department, Angelo State University

    September 2011-August 2012
    Student Assistant at the English and Modern Language Department, Angelo State University

  • Education

    March 2016 
    M.A. at Leibniz University; MA Thesis: "Queer Spaces: Violence and Gender Norms in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

    October 2012 – March 2016
    Studies at Leibniz University, Program: Master of Advanced Anglophone Studies

    September 2012
    B.A. at Leibniz University; BA Thesis: "A Space for the Third Sex in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood

    Mai 2012
    B.A. at the Angelo State University, Texas

    August 2011 – August 2012
    Studies at the Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas

    October 2008 – September 2012
    Studies at Leibniz University, Englisch and Political Science

  • Memberships and Offices

    German Association for American Studies (GAAS/ DGfA)
    Co-Speaker of the Diversity Roundtable at GAAS

    Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society for English Literature (Angelo State University)

  • Conference Organization and Research Trips

    August – November 2018
    Research Stay at the University of California, Berkeley (Sponsor: Dr. Nadia Ellis) 

    Juni 2017
    Part of the organizational team of the annual conference of the German Association for American Studies, “Modernities and Modernization in North America” at Leibniz University Hannover

    September 2016
    Summer School „Inside/ Outside: Queer Networks in Transnational Perspective“ 

    Februar – April 2015
    Research Stay at the University of Texas at Austin

    Mai 2014
    Organization of the Meeting of Doctoral Candidates in American Studies at Northern German Universities, co-organized with Ilka Brasch, Florian Groß, and Kirsten Twelbeck 

  • Scholarships and Awards

    2018
    Research Scholarship of the Humanities Facultry at Leibniz University Hannover

    February 2015
    German Academic Exchange Service
    PROMOS Scholarship at Leibniz University

    May 2012
    2011-2012 Who’s Who in American Universities and Colleges Award of the Angelo State University 

    August 2011 – August 2012
    Carr Academic Scholarship 

    Juli 2011
    German Academic Exchange Service
    PROMOS Scholarship at Leibniz University